October 24-29

This week was more about SMART Board issues. A replacement SMART Board was finally delivered this week. When SMART Boards were initially installed in the all the classrooms at the beginning of the year, a company was contracted for the installation. Now, it's the school's responsibility. This board had already been mounted at the beginning of the year so it seemed to be a quick install fix. Right before the board was starting to be installed, our ET realized the board is not the same size. They sent a smaller board than the previous. When talking to the company on the phone and explaining the situation, we figured it must be pretty cheap for them to make these boards. Instead of shipping the board back and them sending the correct board, they told us to keep it. This is probably because a person has to deliver each board when it's shipped or received. We also got the SMART Response system for our lower grades. This is SMART Board clicker system that students use to take tests with. All of these clickers had to have batteries installed and labeled before distributed to classrooms.  This does take awhile since you have 20 remotes for each class and the screws has to be taken out before you can insert the batteries. I know I will be working on this next week too.